Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

He is not in a new Government, however, as the Government has been in power for 13 years. He cannot come to the House and say he will look at, debate and discuss the issues. He shares the responsibility for the failure to improve these schemes of his predecessors.

Will the Minister attempt to get the figures in regard to the number of people who should be eligible for FIS? He can work with the Revenue Commissioners to examine the details of the scheme. When it was set up, somebody must have tried to examine the number of people who were eligible because it would be irresponsible to set up a scheme without knowing how many people would be eligible for it. Will he commit to trying to do that?

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